Re: Bloat in desktop environments

2007-05-18 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On May 18, 2:40 am, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think it would be a good idea to choose the least capable DE > > for the default in Debian. > I suppose that many people come to Linux from Windows and so are looking > for something that looks more or less like what they

Re: Bloat in desktop environments

2007-05-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 May 2007, Me wrote: > On May 17, 10:10 am, "Masatran, R. Deepak" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Memory requirements of desktop environments, from > > : > > > > * XFCE 4: 128 MB > > * Gnome 2: 384 MB > > * KDE 3:512 MB > > KDE does not requ

Re: Bloat in desktop environments

2007-05-17 Thread Me
On May 17, 10:10 am, "Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Memory requirements of desktop environments, from > : > > * XFCE 4: 128 MB > * Gnome 2: 384 MB > * KDE 3:512 MB KDE does not require 512 MB of memory to run well. That URL yo

Re: Bloat in desktop environments

2007-05-17 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:31:16PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Memory requirements of desktop environments, from > : > > * XFCE 4: 128 MB > * Gnome 2: 384 MB > * KDE 3:512 MB > > Gnome, and KDE are slow, and resource-hungry. Why not make

Re: Bloat in desktop environments

2007-05-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:31:16PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Memory requirements of desktop environments, from > : > > * XFCE 4: 128 MB > * Gnome 2: 384 MB > * KDE 3:512 MB > > Gnome, and KDE are slow, and resource-hungry. Why not make